Monday Music: sweet and weary head

My friend Egon is in town and I am busy being a terrible host, alongside the usual activities, such as trying to crawl under from beneath a pile of work. Still, Monday music is sacred. Lorge – El Ten Eleven Lapland – Ratatat Thorn-torn Lips – Robert Berkman Pretty Good Year – Tori Amos InContinue reading “Monday Music: sweet and weary head”

Um, so the response to Elizabeth Lambert’s ponytail-yanking incident isn’t sexist or anything…

Elizabeth Lambert, a University of New Mexico football player (that’s soccer, to my fellow Americans – I think “soccer” is a stupid word and try to use it as little as possible, OK?), was involved in a pretty violent incident on the pitch and it wound up on YouTube. She was suspended from the team,Continue reading “Um, so the response to Elizabeth Lambert’s ponytail-yanking incident isn’t sexist or anything…”